'It is as a poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead," Poe states in his preface to this remarkable meditation on the universe, which was originally published in 1848. The universe has certainly not yet been fully...

MEYERS, JEFFREY. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy (New York: Scribners, 1992). 348 pp. $30.00. This volume is not a work of original archival research; it is a reworking of other's published material, a synthesis designed for the general reader. Perhaps...

Even charming, chiseled-faced actors can have it tough.As a star of "Eureka," the Sci Fi Channel's most popular series, Colin Ferguson has to spend long hours nearly half of the year on the show's set in Vancouver, British Columbia _ away from his home base...

Steve Fossett has had a lifetime of daring achievements, most of them high in the sky. His latest goal has been a speed record across solid ground.Fossett was scouting Nevada's dry lake beds for the perfect place to conduct test runs ahead of an effort...

In the following essay, Hume refutes criticism that assumes that Poe himself is the narrator of Eureka, and suggests rather that the narrator is a madman created by Poe.